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Although I am not a direct competitor with Derek, someone that is should turn his ass in. Or better, a director/producer for what he has done to the market. Like Christian said, Derek singlehandedly raised the rates for girls across the board. Including girls that don't deserve those rates but in an industry always looking for fresh meat producers pay it.



'Deserve' is neither here nor there...if producers feel a girl is worth her asking price, they'll pay it, if they don't, then they won't.

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As sales diminish, talent rates continue to rise disproportionately to sales. Derek is no different then the UAW. While helping the talent, he hurts the rest of the industry with his other hand.



This is the point I have been making in the 'Porn Economics part 3' thread. By having standardised, across the board rates, some girls will invariably be underpaid, some will invariably be overpaid. If producers start to embrace VOD/Pay Per Scene technology, then they'll get a much clearer picture of who sells and who doesn't, and alter individual rates/offers accordingly...thus weeding out the coattail riders. Joe Actor doesn't get the same amount of money as Tom Cruise, and there's a reason for that...because the Cruiser brings in more money than Joe Actor. I don't see why this shouldn't be the same in porn.

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Now let's cut off both his hands and see where the industry ends up. I think for the better. Rates for girls will lower and producers will make a tiny profit to continue booking this girls so they won't have to turn to hooking because less and less producers can afford to shoot them. This is a win-win for talent and producers.



Personally, I'm all for higher talent rates...the cream of the crop should be rewarded accordingly. See my Aria Giovanni example in the Porn Economics thread and tell me if it's better that she should make something like $2 million off of 20 or so scenes rather than $20,000.

If top of the line girls start making that sort of money, I think you'll see the overall quality of talent coming in to the biz shoot way up. And that can only be a good thing for everybody...